Basheer Nafi | 18 November 2019 | TR
Nine years since the outbreak of the Arab revolutions, internal tensions and instability are still shaping the situation in the Arab Mashreq region
David Hearst | 18 September 2018 | TR
Journalists suffer from a occupational disease. We have a bad habit of placing ourselves at the centre of events, even though, more often than not , we are as distant to it as everyone else [...]
Richard A. Falk | 19 July 2018
In the days before the Turkish elections there were evident clashing fears and hopes mixed with predictions that mirrored these passions and which anticipated some kind of upset of the Erdoğan game plan for the [...]
Galip Dalay | 21 May 2018
Ankara is traditionally wary of Tehran’s ambitions in its immediate neighbourhood. But despite experiencing occasional shifts, their relationship has long been relatively stable. Since neither country views the other as posing an existential threat – [...]
Walter Posch | 21 May 2018 | AR | TR
In recent years, Iran’s activities in Syria have come under severe criticism. In particular, the presence of Shiite militias orchestrated by Tehran has been at the center of Western, Arab, and of course Israeli critique.
Galip Dalay | 17 January 2018
What was previously depicted as a very strong relationship between Turkey and the Kurdistan region seems to have been no more than a fragile, transactional one Turkey's relationship with Iraqi Kurdistan has been a subject [...]
Amjad Atallah | 16 January 2018 | TR
Media organizations often maintain an inventory of updated obituaries to newsworthy public figures — just in case. Obituaries to an expired idea, like the partition of Israel and Palestine, are harder.
Tamer Badawi | 08 January 2018
Socioeconomic changes, largely stemming from President Hassan Rouhani’s economic policies since he took office, have had the biggest impact (among several factors) on driving and shaping the recent protests in Iran. The initial protests that [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 04 January 2018
With the immensely destructive impact of war in Syria wearing off, the Syrian regime has gained the upper hand in the country. The Syrian crisis, which started out as a national conflict, swiftly took on [...]
Leonid M. Issaev | 03 January 2018
The beginning of December was marked by Vladimir Putin taking a tour in the Middle East during which he held a meeting with the leaders of Turkey, Syria and Egypt. At the same time, Vladimir [...]
